Tight package



(No Model.)

J. NAYLOR, Jr. Tight Package.-

Noa 232,839. Patented Oct. 5,1880.

WITNESSES INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

JAMES NAYLOR, JR, OF ROCHESTER, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO WHITMAN & BURRELL AND DAVID H. BURRELL, ALL OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW YORK.

TIGHT PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 232,839, dated October 5, 1880.

Application filed May 7, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it knownithat I, JAMES NAYLOR, Jr., of the city of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tight Packages; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, enabling others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, together with the letters of reference thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objectlof my invention is to produce, at less expense, packages which will better serve their various requirements.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is an elevation, in which a part is removed in order to show clearly the construction, Fig. 2 being an enlarged section of the same, and Fig. 3 a modification of Fig. 2, showing the same before the hoop is driven.

The staves A A A are first shaped, then set up and trussed in the quarter-hoops B B, then rabbeted and chamfered, as shown. To get on the head-hoops B B the staves must be drawn in, which is easily done in small packages, but in larger ones windlassing has to be resorted to.

(l is a paper cylinder, having square edges and of even thickness throughout.

D is the head, which is rabbeted, as shown, so as to form the rim d. The head is then inserted within the cylinder 0, the rim d resting on the end thereof. This is fitted close, requirin g to be pushed in or pulled out.

It must here be observed that the cylinder is diametrically larger than the head at the rim d. Both heads being in the cylinder, the whole is then inserted within the staves as already prepared, one of the head-hoops B being partially on, as shown at Fig. 3. This is to draw the staves in, so that the rim d of the head 1) will come in contact with the rabbet of the stave. Thus a square rabbet, E, is formed for the rim d, the staves A A A holding on one side, the paper cylinder 0 on the other.

Care must be taken that the rim d does not come in contact with the bottom of the rabbet inbefore explained.

E so formed, as the rabbet, with the rim d entering, is only for holding the inclosed parts in a line with the axis of the package.

Soon after the rim (1 has entered the rabbet E, or as the staves A A A are brought up, they come in contact with the paper cylinder 0, and in further driving of the hoop B, Fig. 3, the cylinder (3 is effectually trussed to the head D. Thus an effectual union is obtained without in any way disturbing or breaking the body of the paper cylinder 0.

By this arrangement the heads can be easily removed without injury to any part, as all that has to be done is to remove the headhoops B, then the staves spring back, releasing the head, which can then be readily pulled out of the paper cylinder 0, the same can be reinserted, the hoop put on and driven, and it is effectually closed, as before. This is very important, for many packages made tight, if opened, require great care to close again.

The actual holding or retaining features of this improvement consist in the head D and paper cylinder 0. Each part thereof being seamless or tight of itself, the only union to be made is of the two, which is effected as here- Thus there is little risk of leakage.

The abuse which packages generally receive in shipment must also be compensated for. In this case the staves A A A constitute the nec; essaryand adequate protection, the same being also used to hold the head from bursting out. The staves A A A being bilged, and the paper cylinder 0 being straight, there is an air-space, S, intervening. This is a'valuable feature, as it to a great extent preserves the contents.

The paper cylinder 0 has in its manufacture lines impressed into it, as shown at X, Fig. 1. These impressions are at equal distances, and may be used to serve as measures of quantity for lard, butter, and other substances of a similar consistency, for when the staves are removed the cylinder can be cut, so the quantity required is yet inclosed in either part of the severed cylinder.

, The inside of the package canbe coated with a substance of different nature to that of the intended contents; but in its unprepared state it can always be guaranteed air-tight.

Another important feature of my improvement is in its adaptability to other uses after serving the purpose for which it was originally made.

By cutting otf that part of the stave which holds in the head, (this is easily done with any knife,) one of the heads serves as a close-fitting lid. A handle can be attached, and thus the head is removed without disturbing the hoop, and in case the head should ever need securing again it can be done by nailing on the ordinary head-linings, as in present use. Then the packages will command their first cost after first use.

It should also be observed that all the nails used in making these packages are in the hoops, and when the common racked hoopis used,then no'nails are required.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a tight package, the combination, with the paper cylinder 0 and inclosing wooden barrel A A, of the head D, inserted loosely within the cylinder, having a rim, (1, which fits over the top of the cylinder and fits within a rabbet, E, of the outer barrel, whereby said head serves as the cover for both the outside and inside receptacles, and is readily removable by-loosening the hoops of the barrel, as hereinshown and described.

2. In a tight package, the combination of the open-ended paper cylinder 0, the inclosing wooden barrel A A, provided with the rabbet E, the head D, resting loosely in the cylinder and-supported by a rim, d, on its top, said rim striking into the rabbet of the barrel, and the tightening-hoop B upon the end of the barrel, whereby said head is held against end movement by the rabbet, and the cylinder end is clamped between the barrel and the head, and the head is at the sametime removable by loosening the hoops of the barrel, as herein shown and described.

3. In a tight package consisting of the interior paper cylinder, '0, and exterior protecting barrel, A A, the head D, fitted within the cylinder and forming a loose cover to thesame, and forming also the permanent head of the barrel by being inclosedin the rabbet E of 'the latter, as herein shown and described.

4. In a tight package, the cylinder 0 the head D, bearing against the insid-e'of theicylinder and provided with the rim cl',,resting over the cylinder, and being diametrically less than the exterior of the cylinder, in combination with the bilged barrel A A, having the rabbet E, and bearing against the cylinder C and.

over the rimd and the head-hoop B, as shown; and described, and for the purposespecified;

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribingwitnesses.

JAMES NAYLOR, JR;

Witnesses SELDEN S. BROWN, CHAS. H. KINGsBURY- 

